Welcome to Tropical Rainforest Facts by Dishant and Rachel
Here we will provide infomation on the Kingdoms in the Tropical Rainforest.
First we'll start with Mononera. Moneran are single celled organism that often live in chains or clusters of cells. The Monera has no nucleus. The major groups in the Monera Kingdom include bacteria and cyanobacteria. Anabaena spharaerica ia an example of cyanobacteria. Ababaena spharaerica is found in fresh water. It is responsible for the green scum found in pounds of streams. Other cyanobacteria are the foodproducing organisms found in lichen. Bacteria are found in almost every habitat. It is also found in your body causing disease. Escherichia coli is the genus and speices name for bacteria found in warm blooded animals.The second Kingdom the Protist kingdom. These organisms are more complex than the monera. The Protist kingdom, unlike the Monera kingdom, have much larger cells and also contain nuclei and other organalls.
This is a picture of a Paramecium aurelia
This is a picture of Amoeba proteus
This a picture of a paramecium(top). The scientific name for it is Paramecium aurelia. The protists are found in fresh water and are especially common in scums. Paramecium are atracted by acidic conditions. This is a picture of an amoeba(bottom). This protist is animal like. The scientific name for this protist is Amoeba proteus.
These creatures are found in oceans, salt swamps, salty rivers and ponds.
Protists can also live in hazardous environments.
Fungus Kingdom Now were on to the fungus kingdom. These are more complex than the moneran and protist kingdoms. They are multi-celled.
Most Fungi are also visible unlike the protists and the moneran. Also, Fungi obsorb nutrients and do not have chlrophyl. Ink Cap Fungus This is an example of an ink Coprinus comatus which has fruiting bodies which appear like a mass of tiny umbrellas (with a diameter of less than 2cm). here it is growing on the broken tap root of an uprooted tree. The matured caps of this type of fungus dissolve into a "gooey" black mass containing the spores.
this is an ink cap fungus
Parsol Fungus Shaped like tiny umbrellas of a half-centimetre across, these mushrooms are found in leaf litter. They have a leathery texture, and the long, thin stalks are also tough and wiry. The species shown here (Marasmiusalliaceus) grows on dead leaves. Like other fungi in the tropical rainforest, Marasmius spp. are efficient decomposers recycling nutrients in dead leaves.
Plant Kingdom Now we move on to the plant kingdom,these organisms are more complex and multi celled.Also, plants make there own food by absorbing there nutrients from the sun and soil called photosythesis.
The cells contain chlorophyl and organelles.Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae.
They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae.
Liverwort
Lunularia cruciata - a thallose liverwort found in wet environments usualy by water sources.
Staghorns are tropical plants native to the Philippines, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia, Madagascar, Africa and America. In their native habitat they thrive, generally found growing on tree trunks, branches, or rocks. Tropical rains provide moisture and wash nutrients into the root area.
The Classifacation for the Staghorn Fern Kingdom-Plantae(Plants)
Division-Pteridophyta(Ferns)
Class-Filicopsida Order-Polypodiales Family- Polypokiaceae(Polypody family) Genus- Platycerium
Species- superbum (staghorn fern) Moss
Grimmia pulvinata
This Moss grows on rocks in groupings with other mosses Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Division: Bryopsida
class: Dicranidae
Order: Grimmiales
Family: Grimmiaceae
Genus: Grimmia
Species: pulvinata
Feild Horsetail
Equisetum arvense
lives mostly in wet places (swamps, marshes, murkey soil)
like the fern it also has a vascular system.Kingdom: PlantaeDivision: SphenophytaClass: EquisetopsidaOrder: EquisetalesFamily: EquisetaceaeGenus: EquisetumSpecies: arvense
Mango Tree The mango is indigenous to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia in many tropical regions
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class:Magnoliopsida
Order: Sapindales
Family: Anacardiaceae
Genus: Mangifera
Species: altissima Blanco Whisk ferns like the warm weather of the tropics and subtropics. They are native to the southeastern region of the United States, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. In the United States, whisk ferns can be found in swamplands and dry rocky cliffs from North Carolina to Oklahoma. Whisk Ferns form large clumps in crooks and nannies of trees and are occasionally terrestrial in moist hammocks and well-mulched flower beds.
Hornworts may be found world-wide, though they tend to grow only in places that are damp or humid.
Some species grow in large numbers as tiny weeds in the soil of gardens and fields.
Carnivore
Diet-howler monkeys, sloths, opposms, large reptiles(iguanas), large rodents, other birds
Habitat: found in tropical lowlands from the southeastern Mezico to northern Arginteina to southern Brazil
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (birds)
Order : Falconiformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Harpia
Species: harpyja
A jaguar at the Milwaukee County Zoological Gardens
Brazilian jaguar}- Diet-- Howler mokeys, Medium sized bird, deer, capybara, tapirs, peccaries, dogs,
foxes, and sometimes even anacondas and caiman. However, the cat will eat any small species that can be caught, including frogs, mice, birds, fish, sloths, monkeys, turtles
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Carnivora
Family:
Felidae
Genus:
Panthera
Species:
onca
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Squamata
Suborder:
Serpentes
Family:
Boidae
Subfamily:
Boinae
Genus:
Eunectes
Species:
notaeus
Prefers mostly aquatic habitats including swamps, marshes, and brush covered banks of slow moving rivers and streams
They have also been known to prey on fish, turtles, small-sized caimans, lizards, birds eggs, small mammals and fish carrion
Sheep Tick
Habitat: found in forests, but also in medows and poorly maintained pastures
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaiformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Amazona species: amazonica Diet: Seeds, nuts, fruits, and berries, flowers, and buds. Habitat: Wet forest, swamps, in canopy of trees
Green Iguana
Green Iguana
Omnivores
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Squamata
Family: Iguanidae
Genus: Iguana
Species: iguana Habitat: Iguanas live in tropical rainforest areas, generally in lower altitudes in areas near water sources, such as rivers or streams. They spend most of their time high in the forest Diet: Green iguanas are Omnivores so they eat both plants and meat. They tend to eat mostly plants, though, especially leaves and fruits. Sometimes green iguanas (especially young ones) will eat eggs, insects, and small vertebrates.
Dainty Green Tree-frog
Carnivore
Kingdom: animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: hylidae
Genus: Litoria
Speccies: gracilenta
Habitat: May be found on floating vegetations, on reeds in swamps and streams or in shrub or tree foliage along rivers Diet: Mainly insects and other arthropods.
Green Eyed Tree Frog
Carnivore
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Litoria
Species: genimaculata Habitat:Found in the rainforest, close to streams and seepages associated with damp mosses and lichens. Diet: insects
Found almost everywhere especially on low forest plats.
their diet primarily consists of small invertebrates, large mantises have been observed eating small vertebrates such as lizards, mice, snakes, and small birds such as hummingbirds. This Insect is strictly a carnivore.
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Mantodea
Family:
Mantidae
Genus:
Tenodera
Species:
sinensis
Grasshoppers are arthropods that are herbivores and their diet maily consists of grasses,leaves
It lives by large rocks.
Romalea guttata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Orthoptera
Family:
Romaleidae
Genus:
Romalea
Species:
guttata
Turtle
Florida Redbelly Turtle Pseudemys nelsoni
Florida Redbelly Turtle Pseudemys nelsoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Order:
Testudines
Common Chameleon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Squamata
Suborder:
Sauria
Family:
Chamaeleonidae
Genus:
Chamaeleo
Species:
chamaeleon
Collared Aracari
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Piciformes
Family:
Ramphastidae
Genus:
Pteroglossus
Species:
torquatus
fish, amphibians, reptiles, and water birds. Older animals are capable of taking larger, mammalian prey (e.g. wild pigs).
Spectacled Caiman
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Order:
Crocodilia
Family:
Alligatoridae
Genus:
Caiman
Species:
crocodilus
small river fish and shrimps
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Phoenicopteriformes
Family:
Phoenicopteridae
Genus:
Phoenicopterus
Species:
P. ruber
Male on feeder
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Trochiliformes
Family:
Trochilidae
Genus:
Campylopterus
Species:
hemileucurus
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Pelecaniformes
Family:
Pelecanidae
Genus:
Pelecanus
Species:
philippensis
Polycelis nigra
Flatworm
carnivor
Habitat : host actinopterygian and chondrichthyan fishes
Diet: actinopterygian and chondricthyan fishes
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Monopisthocotylea
Class: Turbellaria
Order:Tricladida
Family:Planariidae
Genus: Polycelis
spicies: nigra
Flatworm
carnivor Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Platyhelminthes Class:Turbellaria Order:Tricladida Family:Geoplanidae Genus:Geoplana species:sanguinea
Habitat: Amazon rainforest
Diet: earthworms
Neddle Nematode
Roundworm
Decomposer
Diet: bacteria, protozoa, fungal spores, and each other
Habitat: wet soil, other wet environments
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematode
Class: Adenophorea
Order: Dorylaimida
Family: Longidoridae
Genus: Paralongidorus
Species: maximus
Roundworm
carnivor
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class:
Order:
Family:
Genus:Capillostrongyloides
species: arapaimae
Habitat: Host fish Arapaima fish in the anterior part of intestine and pylocric careca
Diet: Arapaima fish
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Annelida
Class:
Clitellata
Subclass:
Oligochaeta
Order:
Haplotaxida
Family:
Lumbricidae
Genus:
Lumbricus
Species:
terrestris
Dendrobates tinctorius
Dendrobates t. tinctorius
Scientific name
Dendrobates tinctorius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Amphibia
Order:
Anura
Family:
Dendrobatidae
Genus:
Dendrobates
Species:
tinctorius
Eisenia fetida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Annelida
Class:
Clitellata
Order:
Haplotaxida
Family:
Lumbricidae
Genus:
Eisenia
Species:
fetida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Squamata
Suborder:
Serpentes
Family:
Elapidae
Genus:
Micrurus
Species:
tener
The snakes diet is small rodents such as rats and mice
Welcome to Tropical Rainforest Facts by Dishant and Rachel
Here we will provide infomation on the Kingdoms in the Tropical Rainforest.
First we'll start with Mononera. Moneran are single celled organism that often live in chains or clusters of cells. The Monera has no nucleus. The major groups in the Monera Kingdom include bacteria and cyanobacteria. Anabaena spharaerica ia an example of cyanobacteria. Ababaena spharaerica is found in fresh water. It is responsible for the green scum found in pounds of streams. Other cyanobacteria are the foodproducing organisms found in lichen. Bacteria are found in almost every habitat. It is also found in your body causing disease. Escherichia coli is the genus and speices name for bacteria found in warm blooded animals.The second Kingdom the Protist kingdom. These organisms are more complex than the monera. The Protist kingdom, unlike the Monera kingdom, have much larger cells and also contain nuclei and other organalls.
This a picture of a paramecium(top). The scientific name for it is Paramecium aurelia. The protists are found
in fresh water and are especially common in scums. Paramecium are atracted by acidic conditions.
This is a picture of an amoeba(bottom). This protist is animal like. The scientific name for this protist is Amoeba proteus.
These creatures are found in oceans, salt swamps, salty rivers and ponds.
Protists can also live in hazardous environments.
Fungus Kingdom
Now were on to the fungus kingdom. These are more complex than the moneran and protist kingdoms. They are multi-celled.
Most Fungi are also visible unlike the protists and the moneran. Also, Fungi obsorb nutrients and do not have chlrophyl.
Ink Cap Fungus
This is an example of an ink Coprinus comatus which has fruiting bodies which appear like a mass of tiny umbrellas (with a diameter of less than 2cm). here it is growing on the broken tap root of an uprooted tree. The matured caps of this type of fungus dissolve into a "gooey" black mass containing the spores.
Parsol Fungus
Shaped like tiny umbrellas of a half-centimetre across, these mushrooms are found in leaf litter. They have a leathery texture, and the long, thin stalks are also tough and wiry. The species shown here (Marasmius alliaceus) grows on dead leaves. Like other fungi in the tropical rainforest, Marasmius spp. are efficient decomposers recycling nutrients in dead leaves.
Plant Kingdom
Now we move on to the plant kingdom,these organisms are more complex and multi celled.Also, plants make there own food by absorbing there nutrients from the sun and soil called photosythesis.
The cells contain chlorophyl and organelles.Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae.
They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae.
Liverwort
Lunularia cruciata-a thallose liverwort
Scientific Classifcaation For Lunulariaceae
Kingdom-Plantae
Division-Marchantiohyta
Class-Marchantiopsida
Family-Lunulariaceae
Genus-Lunularia
Speceis-cruciata
Staghorn fern
Staghorns are tropical plants native to the Philippines, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia, Madagascar, Africa and America. In their native habitat they thrive, generally found growing on tree trunks, branches, or rocks. Tropical rains provide moisture and wash nutrients into the root area.
The Classifacation for the Staghorn Fern
Kingdom-Plantae(Plants)
Division-Pteridophyta(Ferns)
Class-Filicopsida
Order-Polypodiales
Family- Polypokiaceae(Polypody family)
Genus- Platycerium
Species- superbum (staghorn fern)
Moss
This Moss grows on rocks in groupings with other mosses
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Division: Bryopsida
class: Dicranidae
Order: Grimmiales
Family: Grimmiaceae
Genus: Grimmia
Species: pulvinata
Feild Horsetail
lives mostly in wet places (swamps, marshes, murkey soil)
like the fern it also has a vascular system. Kingdom: PlantaeDivision: SphenophytaClass: EquisetopsidaOrder: EquisetalesFamily: EquisetaceaeGenus: EquisetumSpecies: arvense
Mango Tree
The mango is indigenous to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia in many tropical regions
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class:Magnoliopsida
Order: Sapindales
Family: Anacardiaceae
Genus: Mangifera
Species: altissima Blanco
Whisk ferns like the warm weather of the tropics and subtropics. They are native to the southeastern region of the United States, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. In the United States, whisk ferns can be found in swamplands and dry rocky cliffs from North Carolina to Oklahoma. Whisk Ferns form large clumps in crooks and nannies of trees and are occasionally terrestrial in moist hammocks and well-mulched flower beds.
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Psilophyta
Class: Psilopsida
Order: Psilotales
Family: Psilotaceae
Genus: Psilotum
Species Nudum
Hornwort
Hornworts may be found world-wide, though they tend to grow only in places that are damp or humid.
Some species grow in large numbers as tiny weeds in the soil of gardens and fields.
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Anthocerotophyta
Class: Anthocerotopsida
Order: Anthocerotales
Family: Anthocerotaceae
Genus: Phaeoceros
Species: laevis
Diet-top canopy of trees(leaves, staghorn fern), epiphytes, fruits
Herbavor
Gorilla Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: PrimatesFamily: HomimidaeGernus: GorillaSpecies: Bwindi Gorillas have no scientifec name
Diet- nuts,fruit, Flowers,leaves, and buds
Habitat: argentenia, Bolivia, Brazil, puarguay
Herbavore
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: PrimatesFamily: AtelidaeGenus: AlouttaSpecies: Caraya
Carnivore
Diet-howler monkeys, sloths, opposms, large reptiles(iguanas), large rodents, other birds
Habitat: found in tropical lowlands from the southeastern Mezico to northern Arginteina to southern Brazil
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (birds)
Order : Falconiformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Harpia
Species: harpyja
Brazilian jaguar}- Diet-- Howler mokeys, Medium sized bird, deer, capybara, tapirs, peccaries, dogs,
foxes, and sometimes even anacondas and caiman. However, the cat will eat any small species that can be caught, including frogs, mice, birds, fish, sloths, monkeys, turtles
Prefers mostly aquatic habitats including swamps, marshes, and brush covered banks of slow moving rivers and streams
They have also been known to prey on fish, turtles, small-sized caimans, lizards, birds eggs, small mammals and fish carrion
Habitat: found in forests, but also in medows and poorly maintained pastures
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Acari
Family: Ixodidea
Genus: Ixodes
species: ricinus
Orange-winged Amazon
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaiformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Amazona
species: amazonica
Diet: Seeds, nuts, fruits, and berries, flowers, and buds.
Habitat: Wet forest, swamps, in canopy of trees
Green Iguana
Omnivores
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Squamata
Family: Iguanidae
Genus: Iguana
Species: iguana
Habitat: Iguanas live in tropical rainforest areas, generally in lower altitudes in areas near water sources, such as rivers or streams. They spend most of their time high in the forest
Diet: Green iguanas are Omnivores so they eat both plants and meat. They tend to eat mostly plants, though, especially leaves and fruits. Sometimes green iguanas (especially young ones) will eat eggs, insects, and small vertebrates.
Carnivore
Kingdom: animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: hylidae
Genus: Litoria
Speccies: gracilenta
Habitat: May be found on floating vegetations, on reeds in swamps and streams or in shrub or tree foliage along rivers
Diet: Mainly insects and other arthropods.
Carnivore
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Litoria
Species: genimaculata
Habitat:Found in the rainforest, close to streams and seepages associated with damp mosses and lichens.
Diet: insects
Found almost everywhere especially on low forest plats.
their diet primarily consists of small invertebrates, large mantises have been observed eating small vertebrates such as lizards, mice, snakes, and small birds such as hummingbirds. This Insect is strictly a carnivore.
Grasshoppers are arthropods that are herbivores and their diet maily consists of grasses,leaves
It lives by large rocks.
Florida Redbelly Turtle Pseudemys nelsoni
small river fish and shrimps
Flatworm
carnivor
Habitat : host actinopterygian and chondrichthyan fishes
Diet: actinopterygian and chondricthyan fishes
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Monopisthocotylea
Class: Turbellaria
Order:Tricladida
Family:Planariidae
Genus: Polycelis
spicies: nigra
Flatworm
carnivor
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Turbellaria
Order: Tricladida
Family: Geoplanidae
Genus: Geoplana
species: sanguinea
Habitat: Amazon rainforest
Diet: earthworms
Roundworm
Decomposer
Diet: bacteria, protozoa, fungal spores, and each other
Habitat: wet soil, other wet environments
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematode
Class: Adenophorea
Order: Dorylaimida
Family: Longidoridae
Genus: Paralongidorus
Species: maximus
Roundworm
carnivor
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class:
Order:
Family:
Genus:Capillostrongyloides
species: arapaimae
Habitat: Host fish Arapaima fish in the anterior part of intestine and pylocric careca
Diet: Arapaima fish
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